Walt Disney personally fired the child star of Old Yeller and The Swiss Fay Robson after fdg out he was gay.
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THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
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" Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 Bella ThorneDiree Navarro//Getty ImagAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below9 Raven SymoneJason LaVeris//Getty ImagThe star of 'That's So Raven, ' a Disney Channel staple, officially me out when gay marriage was legalized across the Uned Stat by tweetg "I n fally get married! Wh all that’s been wrten about the Walt Disney Company’s embrace of the LGBTQ movement, om affirmg TV shows like When We Rise to movi like Bety and the Beast, om “gay days” at Walt Disney World to out sger Sir Elton John’s mic for The Ln Kg and so on, ’s astonishg that prec ltle has been wrten about Tommy Kirk, Disney’s leadg young male star of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Many a gay boy, myself clud, grew up watchg Tommy mourn his dog Old Yeller (1957), turn to a dog himself The Shaggy Dog (1959), tame the savage wilrns wh his brothers The Swiss Fay Robson (1960) and reluctantly kiss Ante Funicello The Misadventur of Merl Jon (1964).
Kirk is gay–which is why he is this lumn the first place–a fact about himself hat he is que open about and willg to talk about his terview:. “I’m not ashamed of beg gay, never have been and never will be. But Kirk knew that his homosexualy would jeopardize his movie reer, clash wh his All-Amerin Boy image and anger both the homophobic Disney and Kirk’s “strict Baptist parents”.